MWiWi 4.1 – Advanced OR-methods in Operations Management

MWiWi 4.1 – Advanced OR-methods in Operations Management

dates:

lecture: Thursday, 10:00  - 12:00, room M.14.25
begin: 10.04.2025

and Monday, 10:00 - 12:00, room I.14.60
begin: 14.04.2025

and alternative dates on Friday, 10:00 - 12:00, room M.12.25
(only after announcement by the lecturer during the regular lectures)

exercise: Wednesday, 14:00  - 16:00 Uhr, room I.14.60
beginn: 16.04.2025

All information about the course can be found in the Moodle course:

Course: Advanced OR-methods in OM

Enrolment key: AOR2025

lecturer: Prof. Dr. Stefan Bock

exercise: Cedric Leon Renner (M.Sc.)

 

Contents:

- Introduction

- Dynamic programming

- Branch & Bound approaches

- Column Generation

- Lagrangian Relaxation

- Heuristics and metaheuristics

- Concepts of real-time control

 

Qualification goals:

After successfully completing this module, students will have a basic and comprehensive understanding of modern operations research methods for solving specific integer problems in operations management. They will be able to analyse various basic optimisation techniques from current OR literature, know their advantages and disadvantages and can therefore assess their applicability for solving a given practical problem. The course is structured according to the choice of methods. Operations management problems are considered in order to explain, analyse and validate the respective methods. The problems to be solved are defined and the solution algorithms presented are evaluated with the help of suitable mathematical model formulations.